You are listening to the ultimate midlife crisis,

joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi, yep, it's me again, and welcome back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,

the ultimate mid-light crisis. It's been a bit of a chasing few days, and to be honest,

I've been a little bit humbled by the weather, and that's not something I say normally.

It's kind of surprised me really.

Generally, Trigger and I've managed our hike pretty well when it comes to avoiding too much rain,

but this past few days have seen rain and rocks, which is such a lethal combination.

Anybody who's ever done this will think about those rocks and just just getting any rain on them really makes

them in a lot of cases slick and you never can really tell which part's wet and which part isn't

now there are prescribed get-outs or blue blaze trails that avoid the rocks in wet weather so you know

we could get out of those but so far we haven't taken any of them.

I'm not sure how much longer we can safety continue to do that. I didn't take any of them in

2014 and I haven't taken any of this time. We just have to see how it goes. But before we get

to it, though, let's hear from our great sponsor, Sawyer. When I hit the trail in 2014, I soon discovered that I come with the wrong water filter.

Everybody else had a Sawyer squeeze.

Eventually, I bought a squeeze, and I loved it.

I'm going again this year, and top of my list of things to buy was the new micro-squeeze filter by Sawyer.

Like all Sawyer stuff, it just works.

You can filter up to 100,000 gallons and their full-size

squeeze filter comes with a lifetime warranty. Last year, believe it or not, more than 4 million people

got clean water through a Soya water filter. But if you think that Sawyer is just about water filters,

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